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Title: An Aviator's Field Book
Being the field reports of Oswald Boelcke, from August 1,
1914 to October 28, 1916
Author: Oswald Boelcke
Translator: Robert Reynold Hirsch
Release Date: September 17, 2009 [EBook #30011]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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AN AVIATOR'S
FIELD BOOK
_Being the Field Reports of Oswald Boelcke,
from August 1, 1914, to October 28, 1916_
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY
ROBERT REYNOLD HIRSCH, M.E.
WITH A FOREWORD BY
JOSEPH E. RIDDER, M.E.
1917
NATIONAL MILITARY PUBLISHING CO.
1919 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
[Illustration: COLONEL OSWALD BOeLCKE'S LAST PICTURE]
ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING
PAGE
Colonel Oswald Boelcke's Last Picture _Frontispiece_
After His First Victory 32
The Enemy's Aeroplane in Ruins 33
The Master-Flier and His Men 64
Boelcke and His Brother Wilhelm,
September, 1914 65
Donning His Flying Dress 96
An Aviator Bombarded with
Shrapnel 97
Among His Comrades 144
German Marine Aviators on a
Field Near the North Sea 145
Ready for the Start 160
Boelcke and His Brother Max in
France (August, 1916) 161
One of His Last Victims 182
Starting on His Last Ride, October
28, 1916--5 P. M. 183
FOREWORD
BY JOSEPH E. RIDDER
An unassuming book, still one of those which grip the reader from
beginning to end. When the au
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